Tricia Tiede

They committed a crime.

They needed to be punished, and we needed to move on.

I remember sitting and watching the look on Deli's face as he came in seeing my father, and it was very apparent to me that he did not know my father had survived.

And the look on his face was just priceless.

Like he had been defeated.

My dad survived.

We won.

I went through periods of anger and frustration and not understanding why.

And for years and years that followed, I'd cry in silence.

I spent a good 10 years hiding that pain and suppressing that pain.

It's fabulous.

We love it there.

We need to do a hike before I go down.

We actually go up there and enjoy family and friends and we play and we relax and we bond.

They're not going to take away from us the things that we love and we enjoy in our life.

They took our mom, they took our grams, but that's where it ends.

When my father was diagnosed with cancer, our whole family came together, and that last

Six to eight weeks of his life were so absolutely incredible.

When my father passed, it was very peaceful.

I had the privilege of being right by his side as he took his last breaths.